La matière féerique dans Salammbô

This article approaches Flaubert’s historical novel Salammbô from the perspective of fantasy. We postulate that Flaubert, who was highly inspired by this popular theatrical genre, takes fantasy as a model for his deconstruction of the writing of History. On the one hand he establishes a certain disc...

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Main Author: Gesine Hindemith
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Institut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM) 2014-10-01
Series:Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/2274
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spelling doaj-7f356e18951c48dd880d610bd9ec16292020-11-25T03:42:47ZfraInstitut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM)Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique1969-61912014-10-01La matière féerique dans SalammbôGesine HindemithThis article approaches Flaubert’s historical novel Salammbô from the perspective of fantasy. We postulate that Flaubert, who was highly inspired by this popular theatrical genre, takes fantasy as a model for his deconstruction of the writing of History. On the one hand he establishes a certain discontinuity through a structure of pictures, and on the other, he uses visual effects existing in the fantasies of that period, in particular apparitions and disappearances. Flaubert’s almost cinematographic technique, which literary research has lately identified, owes much to fantasy, a genre that was considerably in fashion at the time. Through these visual and structural techniques the writer stages the ambivalence between the magical and the catastrophic, characteristic of fantasy. Thus the Punic Wars Carthage is fossilized, as a time stratum doomed to disaster and annihilation.http://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/2274
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publisher Institut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM)
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description This article approaches Flaubert’s historical novel Salammbô from the perspective of fantasy. We postulate that Flaubert, who was highly inspired by this popular theatrical genre, takes fantasy as a model for his deconstruction of the writing of History. On the one hand he establishes a certain discontinuity through a structure of pictures, and on the other, he uses visual effects existing in the fantasies of that period, in particular apparitions and disappearances. Flaubert’s almost cinematographic technique, which literary research has lately identified, owes much to fantasy, a genre that was considerably in fashion at the time. Through these visual and structural techniques the writer stages the ambivalence between the magical and the catastrophic, characteristic of fantasy. Thus the Punic Wars Carthage is fossilized, as a time stratum doomed to disaster and annihilation.
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